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Contents 1 Events 2 Classical music 3 Opera 4 Publications 5 Births 6 Deaths

Events

• The first theatre is built on the site of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
• February 3 - L'Opera Comique opens in Paris

Classical music

• Coffee Cantata - Johann Sebastian Bach
• The Song of Deborah and Baruk (oratorio) - Maurice Greene
• Six Sonatas for Cello - Benedetto Marcello
• Lo frate 'nnamorato: Sinfonia in D major - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
• Responsoria pro Hebdomada Sancta - Jan Dismas Zelenka

Opera

• Giuseppe Bonno - Nigella e Nise
• George Frideric Handel - Ezio; Sosarme
• John Frederick Lampe - Britannia
• Michel Montéclair - Jephté
• Giovanni Battista Pergolesi - La Salustia

Publications

• Musicalisches Lexicon, compiled by Johann Gottfried Walther

Births

• January 2 - František Brixi, composer (died 1771)
• January 18 - Jean-Guillain Cardon, composer
• February 5 - Nathanael Gottfried Gruner, composer
• February 25 - Robert Hudson (composer)
• March 31 - Joseph Haydn (died 1809)
• May 17 - Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer
• June 21 - Johann Christoph Frederic Bach, composer
• September 1 - Johann Gottlieb Sollner and Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie (died 1781), composers
• October 6 - John Broadwood, founder of firm of piano makers (died 1812)
• November 27 - Johann Joseph Emmert, composer
• December 13 - Jean-Claude Trial, composer

Deaths

• January 1 - Nicolo Grimaldi, castrato singer (born 1673)
• February 17 - Louis Marchand (born 1669)
• March 5 - Joseph-François Salomon, composer
• April 5 - Johann Christian Schieferdecker, composer
• April 23 - Cajetan Kolberer, composer
• May 13 - Theodor Schwartzkopff, composer
• July 20 - Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, composer
• September 17 - Josef Antonin Planicky, composer
• December 4 - John Gay (born 1685)
• December 14 - Johann Philipp Fortsch, composer
• December 18 - Johann Valentin Eckelt, composer
• date unknown - Pier Francesco Tosi, castrato singer (born c.1653)